Sounds bad – not sure that I would do extractions…the stomatitis is at the back of the mouth up & down. I can’t even guarantee that I could give Sox the pain killers when needed – he is extremely hyper and sensitive, very scared of strangers….poor cat! He’s pretty good with us now, but when I pick him up, he becomes this tight, curled up bundle.
I have been told that there are no guarantees with immune-suppressed cats. From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Susan Hoffman Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 12:11 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: Stomatitis Snowy had three separate procedures -- the first to extract teeth, then when that did not solve the problem she had the first laser treatment, and then she went back for a touch-up with the laser. So we were doing pain meds before, during and after. Snowy's situation was pretty extreme. Her gums were purple and the pain was so severe that she could not eat on her own. If I tried to put medicine in her mouth she went ballistic. Her mouth was on fire and everything hurt. We wound up doing injectible buprenex for the pain. This allowed her to eat. I hid her prednisone in cat food. And then I tucked her in a cage at night with a plate of clindamycin-spiked tuna. That was our process. But without really serious opiate based pain meds none of this would have worked. I also spent a lot of time hand feeding her. She was able to lick from my fingers what she could not eat from the plate. I think the plate may have bumped or rubbed her gums. The laser was NOT the sort that could be done without anesthesia. This cat was in such extreme pain that she could not even be examined without sedation. This was an invasive procedure that burned away the bad tissue and allowed new tissue to grow in its place. It worked. I really thought we were going to have to euthanize this cat. But the laser really worked. Still, it was a difficult several months and the recovery process was slow. The pain meds were essential to getting both Snowy and me through this.
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